Software Engineer at Wooga GmbH (Full-time)

Jobs - - March 05, 2012

Wooga is a European startup based in Berlin, operating in the social game business.

Founded in 2009 it’s already the third largest social game developer by size on Facebook – Every day over 7 millions players play one of our games.

Primary Responsibilities

We have very interesting technical challenges to solve, some numbers from our live systems are 5 millions SQL + NoSQL queries per minute, 7.000 http requests per second and a read/write balance close to 50/50. Our environment is informal and flexible, each game is made in a small multidisciplinary team with typically 2 to 3 backend developers. We have a strict no nonsense policy, we believe in good test coverage and we have the freedom to decide how to develop, host, deploy and operate our systems.

Currently we are using Ruby, Erlang, Redis and AWS for our backend projects. We are constantly looking for new tools and exploring new technologies.

We are frequent speakers at conferences, you can find slides from our talks on Slideshare.

Required skills and experience

  • Good understanding of systems engineering, scalability, and algorithms.
  • Database knowledge, preferably with relational and non-relational databases.
  • Experience implementing APIs, preferably REST a plus.
  • Knowledge of server management (deployment, monitoring, optimizing, etc.) a plus.
  • Experience implementing browser based multiplayer games a plus.
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent experience. We are looking for someone with a strong engineering background who enjoys building high quality products used by millions.

You ideally have a good product sense, an understanding of the web ecosystem, strong personal initiative and the ability to prioritize, you can multi-task and work under fast deadlines.

Your Benefits

  • Being able to bring in own ideas in projects.
  • Realize projects which will be played by millions of players.
  • Work at a fast growing company that operates in a very dynamic environment.
  • Almost no hierarchies and quick decision making processes.
  • Fast-paced, international and dynamic environment.
  • Located in Berlin – Europe’s most exciting city with low cost of living and high quality of life.

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